Dorothy’s Forbidden Grimoire

Amid the steam of the industrial revolution, mysteries surge beneath the surface. Cults and secret societies seek the extraordinary in the shadows, while hidden gods gaze upon humanity from the hea...

Chapter 232: Surprise Attack (2/2)

Dorothy whispered to Vanya, who nodded and raised her rifle, aiming it at Claudio's head. At the same time, Dorothy controlled her corpse to raise her guns and aim them at the black-clad men who were also participating in the ceremony.

Now, everything is ready, just waiting to shoot.

Just as Dorothy was about to give the order to shoot, she suddenly discovered a problem. Then she frowned slightly and her eyes stayed on those confused students.

'The look in these students' eyes... are they hypnotized? Vampires have the ability to hypnotize humans. It seems that the bald bat hypnotized them all and brought them here together. It's also... easier to control them this way.

"It's just that... the direction these students are looking at seems to be slightly wrong."

With the help of several small corpse puppets scattered throughout the ceremony venue, Dorothy carefully observed the group of students in front of her and found that their eyes were all looking forward blankly, as if they were all staring in the direction of Claudio, but if you look more closely, there seems to be a slight error.

After being promoted to a black-rank scholar, Dorothy's ability to receive and process information has greatly improved, which means that she can pay attention to more details and detect inconsistencies.

For example, now, these students seem to be looking at Claudio, but Dorothy photoshopped the picture in her mind. She took a picture of a small corpse looking down at the ground from above, and used the "straight line" tool to draw an auxiliary line for all the students' gazes, but she found that it was not the case.

In Dorothy's eyes, the real focus of these students' attention was not on Claudio, but on a guard beside him, and the guard's eyes were also fixed on the students in front of him.

"Interesting... It seems that this is your inherent routine, right?"

After noticing the current situation, Dorothy thought in her heart, and at this moment, Vanya, who was aiming seriously at the side, spoke in a low voice.

"Ms. Dorothea... When are we going to start..."

"Ah, do it right away, but change your target to the one to the right of the original target."

Dorothy said to Vanya. Although Vanya was a little surprised after hearing it, she immediately adjusted her aim according to Dorothy's instructions and aimed at another man who looked like a guard on Claudio's right, while Dorothy had the three corpses aim at Claudio.

"Aiming completed." Vanya said in a reporting manner, and Dorothy responded immediately.

"Fire!"

“Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!”

At that moment, Dorothy's corpses and Vanya opened fire together, and the roar of gunfire resounded throughout the underground space. A round of bullets was fired at the crowd performing the ceremony in front.

Among them, two bullets missed, two hit two minions who were performing the ceremony, and one hit Claudiu in the chest.

The bullet fired by Nia was originally intended to fly accurately to the head of the servant on the right side of Claudio, but when the bullet was about to hit the servant, his eyes suddenly widened, and he actually tilted his head in time to avoid it.

“Bang!”

Finally, the servant escaped the fate of being shot through the head by Vanya's bullet at a critical moment. The bullet hit his head at a relatively oblique angle, shattering a part of his skull and wiping out a small part of the brain tissue. Blood gushed out, and then he was shot in the chest. After being shot, the servant let out a miserable cry, and then his whole body was shrouded in shadows, and scattered like a group of bats.

The others who were shot fell down. Among them, Claudio fell down while covering his wound and gritting his teeth. His face squirmed rapidly and finally turned into another face. It was Avery's face!

To be on the safe side, the shadow players who were able to change their appearances played a game of identity swapping. Claudius from Japan pretended to be Avery, and Avery pretended to be Claudius to take the bullet for him.

Dorothy and Vanya had seen this move on Thorn and Eli, and Dorothy was already wary of this basic operation of the Shadow Mask. Through the faint visual abnormalities of the hypnotists, Dorothy determined Claudius's true position and shot him, but unfortunately Baijie's reaction ability was too strong, and he was able to dodge the sneak attack rifle bullets to a certain extent.

"What, that guy isn't dead? He turned into a bat!"

"Don't panic, Vanya, keep shooting and kill those minions first..."

Dorothy said in a deep voice, and then controlled the corpse puppets in coats to line up in a row, and emerged from the shadows together, holding revolvers and continuously firing at the panicked minions in black robes. The minions who were successfully attacked were suddenly in chaos, and without their command, they were knocked to the ground without even having time to take out their guns, and the hypnotized scholars were still kneeling in the magic circle with dull expressions, motionless, they did not run around to create obstacles for Dorothy's mopping-up operation.

For a moment, the ceremony venue was in chaos with continuous gunfire. Most of the dozen minions were killed in an instant, and the scattered bats gathered again in a safe place. Claudio, with blood constantly oozing from his head, reappeared among the gathering of bats.

Trembling, Claudio took out a huge syringe filled with bright red blood from his clothes, then without thinking, stabbed his arm artery and pushed it all the way down in one breath.

As a large amount of blood was injected into Claudius' body at a high speed, his injuries all improved instantly. The gunshot wound on his body healed quickly, the bullet was squeezed out of his body, the bleeding on his head stopped, and the damaged brain tissue quickly recovered amidst the wriggling of flesh and blood, exposed by the shattered skull.

Apart from the bone damage, Claude has now recovered after one injection.

"Damn sneak attacker...where did he come from!?"

Claudio gritted his teeth and said this. Although he was confused as to where these people came from, he now understood that the first thing he had to do was to get rid of all the enemies.

Claudio waved his hand and made all the hypnotized students fall asleep, reducing spiritual expenditure. Then he transformed himself into a large group of black bats and rushed towards the intruder who fired the gun.

At this time, the two gunmen, after dealing with most of the minions, were running towards the stairs leading to the first floor. They ran up the stairs one after another, attacking the enemies on the upper floor, and gradually ran to the first floor.

When they saw a large group of bats rushing towards them, a gunman raised his gun and fired at the bats. However, the bullets had obviously limited killing power against such small and nimble targets. Before two bats were shot down, the entire black group of bats had already rushed in front of the gunmen and surrounded them all.

Under the tearing of sharp claws and teeth, the bodies of the three gunmen were quickly torn apart and they fell to the ground one after another. Dorothy, who was still in the shadows, couldn't help but smile as she watched this scene.

Then, Dorothy controlled a fallen gunman corpse to press a small mechanism hidden in the cuff. When the mechanism was triggered, a simple ignition device inside the corpse's coat ignited, which then ignited the mouth of a small gas bottle next to it, which was filled with kerosene and other flammable substances.

Then, the gas bottle full of gas was ignited, and the gas inside began to burn violently and caused an explosion. The explosion of one gas bottle triggered another gas bottle nearby, and finally all the gas bottles carried by the corpse puppets were detonated in succession. The explosion on one corpse puppet triggered the explosion of the gas bottles on the corpse puppets next to it, and finally all the corpse puppets burst into dazzling flames, and the high-temperature flames instantly engulfed all the surrounding bats.